A Country So Interesting Download

Author: Richard I. Ruggles
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0773506780

A Country So Interesting: The Hudson's Bay Company and Two Centuries of Mapping, 1670-1870 (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two)

Maps were an essential tool for the Hudson's Bay Company and during the two centuries before Confederation the Company became the main mapping agency in British North America for the immense territory extending from Ungava Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Download A Country So Interesting: The Hudson's Bay Company and Two Centuries of Mapping, 1670-1870 (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In A Country So Interesting Richard Ruggles describes and analyses the mapping activities of more than 160 Company servants and surveyors as well as the contributions of more than 50 Indians and Inuit who drew sketches and provided original configurations. Also included are annotated catalogues of all the maps known to have been produced by the Hudson's Bay Company and sixty-six reproductions of the most important maps and sketches. The Hudson's Bay Company was responsible for the largest collection Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.